Hi Tom, On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 5:05 PM Tom Trebisky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Moritz, > > Thank you for your help and advice. I am running 7.8.1RC1 as it turns > out, installed yesterday. > > I was overly alarmed by the error messages (they do say "Critical Error" > after all) and along with > getting two blank windows, I just assumed that something serious was wrong.
Yes, these GTK error messages are annoying a big time! Seems nobody knows how to get rid of them. See your preferred search engine that many software packages with terminal support + GUI suffer from them... > I do think that it would make sense for somebody to fix whatever it is > that yields the messages like: > > (wxgui.py:419): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:21:42.695: > gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkSpinButton Fully agreed. The thing is that they are rather impossible to debug. It says line 419 but there is nothing related. > In fact I note that the window I used to start GRASS is filled with > messages of this sort. > Likely that the Gtk libraries have become extra fussy or something, but > it would be nice to clean this > up as it will alarm new users (or any sensible user I would think). Again, fully agreed. > My blank windows do have buttons and when I ignore the error messages > that continue to spew out, I do get > results! I had expected that I would immediately see some kind of map, > not just a blank canvas to start, so on > with the learning curve I go. That's a different topic but also agreed ;-) Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
